Bill de Blasio opens a major lead in NYC mayoral race: poll

Yahoo News ^ | 8/28/2013

[Vaquero]

I remember....I remember walking my wife and (then) 2 boys, in the late 1980s from Yankee stadium and walking to my car(for the trip home to the clean burbs) in a Kinney lot, through a nighttime neighborhood populated with out in the open drug dealers, pimps and HOs.

after Giuliani took over it was the difference between night and day. A breath of fresh air.

my memories go back as a boy living in the Bronx in the 1950s, to when Democrat Wagner was mayor. he took no ‘ship’ from the criminal underclass either and it was not until RINO Lindsay(later Dhimmicrat Lindsay) that I remember the city first going down hill fast.

[PGalt]

Perhaps the Weiner could get Bill and Hillary to stroke him. He would then explode into the lead.

[Oatka]

If you drove into Manhattan through a tunnel you were surrounded and intimidated at the exit by the “squeegee guys” who wanted cash for washing your windshield, or they’d pound their fists on your hood, leaving dents.

I read that their squegees were so dirty, people were paying them NOT to wash their windshields.

The liberals just threw up their hands and said they couldn't do anything about them as "they were too many". Guiliani asked the street cops what was the best way to get rid of them. They said that almost all had records and that if warrants were issued, they'd bring 'em in.

G went to the Brooklyn office that handled the warrants, who told him they were too snowed under to get around to issuing them. G said "Humor me. Issue them and give me a month. If nothing happens, I'll back off".

Warrants were issued and the squegee men evaporated almost overnight. The officers said that after a few arrests, when the officers approached the others, warrant in hand, they high-tailed it. It ended up that there were only about 200 of 'em in the whole city.

G said that when they started enforcing the small laws like turnstile-jumping in the subways and urinating in public, the crime stats started to plummet as the guys who were doing the small stuff were the same ones doing the bigger crimes.

There's a good quick read here HERE but G's book is even better.

[Zhang Fei]

Bill de Blasio (real name = Warren Wilhelm) is a brutal socialist. New York City has survived economically because of the pro-business, anti-crime Guiliani policies. Look for NYC to collapse if a Democrat becomes mayor again.

I think the other Democrats are probably no worse than Koch. De Blasio, however, is the furthest left a New York City mayoral front runner has ever been. If some of the other players don't drop out to keep him from winning, de Blasio may end up doing what no other mayor has managed to do yet - drive the financial sector out of New York City. On the other hand, de Blasio may be so far left that middle-of-the-road Democratic voters may vote for the GOP candidate just to keep de Blasio from winning. Any which way this pans out, this promises to be an unusually interesting NYC election.

[Kenny Bunk]

The prototypical NYC Left-Wing Socialist Democrat ... the vast majority in this asphalt hellhole ... realized that the quirky nerd RINO Giuliani was the last rational hope for the city at the time. However, Giuliani, given as he is to hierarchical, patriarchal, hegemonic, gender-normative somewhat vaguely Christian concepts of life in general, was thoroughly, totally, and like really hated by all of those who elected him as a last resort, except for the people of Staten Island. Giuliani? Too much like Dad to these NYC commie ani who are madly in love with themselves as imaginary teenage revolutionaries.

These same NYC voters, after Giuliani had restored some small measure of sanity to life in NYC, could not wait to get rid of him. In fact, had it not been for 9/11, they probably would have happily lynched him.

I don't think that Giuliani (actually a member of a class later than mine at my college ... so I have some idea of his intellectual formation) would admit this to himself.